Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London - FQSLL
A queer poetry reading evening + book launches with Joan Daròs, Laura Chivite, Adriann Ramirez, Natalia Figueroa and Sofia Vaisman
Natalia Figueroa
Natalia Figueroa (Chile, 1983). Bachelor, MA and PhD in Literature at Universidad de Chile. Her poetry book Una mujer sola siempre llama la atención en un pueblo (Chile, 2014; Spain, 2017), won the Best Poetry Book Prize in 2015 awarded by the Minister of Culture in Chile. She translated from the modern greek Το τραγούδι της αδελφής μου and Ημερολόγια Εξορίας, both from Yannis Ritsos, and Με το πρόσωπο στον τοίχο, from Miltos Sahtouris. In 2018 was published her research Ideologías excluyentes en la literatura chilena (Exclusionary ideologies in Chilean literature). She is a co-organizer of the Female Writers Meeting Islas nuevas, of Poemas para náufragos y viajeros, both in Chile, and of the international women's meeting Mount Sappho. In 2021 she published her second book of poems, Experimentos acerca de la repetición de los días (Experiments on the repetition of days).
Adriann Ramírez
Adriann Ramírez grew up in El Centro, California close to the Mexican border before ultimately moving to London in 2016. They began making short films in San Francisco while working towards their degree in dance and choreography, while simultaneously working as a principal dancer with PUSH Dance Company in 2013. Their first short film, CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’, premiered at the 2014 Frameline International LGBTQ Film Festival and went on to show at various film festivals around the USA and UK. In 2018 they created Lavender Language, an ongoing series of conversations where they speak with queer artists about their creative process and how they maintain careers in artistic fields. HOT TEARS THROUGH VELVET RAGE, their debut book of poetry and photography, was published by Polari Press in 2021.
Laura Chivite
Laura Chivite was born in Pamplona in 1995. When she was 16, she moved to LA, where she studied some cinema courses. She studied Comparative Literature at the University of Granada and she specialized in the conection between cinema and literature. She has published some short stories in underground fanzines and her first novel, Gente que ríe, was published in Caballo de Troya. She's a Literature teacher at a public high school and she tries to write during her free time.
Sofia Vaisman Maturana
Born in Santiago de Chile in 1993. She grew up in the region of Valparaíso, there she began her first approaches to music and poetry. In 2015 she published her first collection of poems, “Pasillos de tiempos precoces” (Editorial Planeta de papel, Valparaíso, Chile). In 2018 she published her second collection of poems: "No le pongamos nombre a lo nuestro" (Ediciones Puntos suspensivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina). And in 2019 she was awarded the second place at the Victorina Press Poetry Awards, (London). She writes regular chronicles for SalvoConducta (Santiago-Buenos Aires), and is editing her third collection of poems “Traducciones para el libro de las sombras” to be published with Elefante Editorial (Buenos Aires). Currently she is in the process of writing her first novel.
Joan Daròs
Joan Daròs (València, 1986) majored in acting in L’Escola de l’Actor and in English Linguistics & Literature in Universitat de València (UVEG). As an actor, he has participated in feature films, plays and TV shows. Although writing was always a part of his life, exploring the book industry did not become a goal until his translation of Matthew López’s “The Inheritance” was published in 2021. “A mordiscos la orquídea” is his first novel.
This event will be in English, Spanish and Basque.
Copies of the books will be available for purchasing after the readings.
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